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Germany, for example, plans to impose a legal
minimum
wage, as other countries have done in the past.
Europe’s welfare system based on replacement incomes and
minimum
wages will not survive globalization.
When governments pay people while they work, rather than for them not to work, as is the case today, welfare benefits imply no
minimum
wage demands.
To maximize the number of units built, housing ministries make sure that projects meet
minimum
specifications below a certain per-unit cost threshold.
This concept was codified in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) Treaty, in which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to keep to a
minimum
their capacity to shoot down the ballistic missiles of the other side.
The most immediate step should be an initiative by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to get the funds flowing with a
minimum
of bureaucratic delay.
At a minimum, there could be an adverse impact on the terms by which America borrows from abroad; that could mean higher interest rates – hints of which are already evident – and ultimately downward pressure on the dollar.
The report also recommends special requirements for keeping the remaining chimps: housing in groups of at least seven, with a
minimum
of 1,000 square feet per chimp, room to climb, and opportunities to forage for food.
Saudi society, and those of some other Gulf States, lacks
minimum
levels of political freedom and participation.
To succeed at this level, students must achieve
minimum
proficiency in reading, math, and numerous non-cognitive skills.
In Zambia, for example, the legal
minimum
age for marriage is 21, yet 42% of girls are married by the age of 18 and nearly one in 12 by the time they reach 15.
These are the absolute
minimum
steps that must be taken to contain Europe’s credit crisis.
It is also important to be wary about some ideas often put forward as solutions, such as requiring large increases in the
minimum
wage paid to hourly workers.
German authorities are working feverishly to come up with a set of proposals in time for the European Union summit at the end of June, but all signs suggest that they will offer only the
minimum
on which the various parties can agree – implying, once again, only temporary relief.
Farmers and food retailers can connect directly through mobile phones and distribution hubs, enabling farmers to sell their crops at higher “farm-gate” prices and without delay, while buyers can move those crops to markets with
minimum
spoilage and lower prices for final consumers.
And on April 1, the
minimum
wage was raised.
Probably the single most telling statistic I cited was that the
minimum
wage (the wage earned by the median worker) measured in the cheapest available calorie, had declined from 52,854 calories per day in May 2012 to just 7,005 by May 2017 – not enough to feed a family of five.
By last month, the
minimum
wage had fallen to just 2,740 calories a day.
The laws of economics, they assert, ensure that in the long run there will be jobs for everyone who wants them, so long as government does not interfere in market processes by setting
minimum
wages or ensuring job security, or so long as unions don't drive up wages excessively.
At a minimum, they should have the rights to life, liberty, and protection from torture that we grant to all members of our own species, regardless of their intellectual abilities.
Arguments, like the one over Iraq, should not sound the relationship's death knell, but must be managed in such a way as to inflict the
minimum
of harm on the partnership.
Policies that tackle structural biases head-on – from
minimum
wages to, potentially, universal basic income schemes – are also needed.
The first option is to defend the wages of the low skilled through minimum-wage laws or paying social replacement incomes which imply
minimum
wage demands against the private economy.
Unfortunately, harmonization would probably apply to wage replacement payments, implying uniform
minimum
wage constraints for EU countries.
Many officials (and the analysts and advisers who support them) assumed that this magic number represents the
minimum
rate needed to provide jobs to workers and managers and absorb the more than six million new graduates who spill out of China’s campuses each year in search of employment.
Without a sharp increase in wages – mainly statutory
minimum
wages – populism will continue to thrive, and most Western economies will remain saddled with slow growth.
Don’t I know that higher
minimum
wages risk causing unemployment?
Moreover, the risks of raising the
minimum
wage are probably not as great as they have been made out to be – at least not now.
The US federal
minimum
wage of $7.25 per hour is one-third lower in real (inflation-adjusted) terms than it was at its peak in 1968.
Even where the authorities have taken steps to raise
minimum
wages – the UK since last year, as well as US states like California and New York, which are targeting a $15 hourly
minimum
wage by 2020 – they are not moving fast or far enough.
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